Backyard Wedding Cake: The First Attempt

I've been super excited to try out cake frosting ever since we went to Joann's and got some Wilton cake frosting decorating tips (although, in retrospect, it might have been better getting a cake decorating kit with instructions and piping bags from Amazon). So I was thrilled when my mom made some cupcakes, and decided to ice them with homemade butter-lemon frosting (made with butter, lemon zest, and powdered sugar).

Here's what the tip looks after we've screwed it onto the plastic bag using some handy accessories that I later learned were called "couplers"...

Picking the Colors For Your Backyard Wedding

I suppose picking colors for a backyard wedding really isn't that different than picking colors for any other type of wedding. Well, you do have to worry about whether they'll clash with the various types of flora you have growing around outside, and perhaps with the siding on your house. And your home decor, if you want to extend the decorations inside. As you can probably guess from the picture to the right, we chose to go with blue for the wedding colors. Specifically, a light blue and a dark blue (so that the bride and groom each kind of "get" a color).

Shopping for the Backyard Wedding: Fabric Decorations

I have to admit: shopping for backyard wedding decorations is more pleasurable than I expected it to be at first, what with my overall reluctance to help with things before we'd really put a solid plan into place. There may be people out there who don't like shopping for pretty things, but apparently I'm not one of them!

The best part for me was buying yards and yards and yards of tulle. Tulle is a fun, versatile fabric, that makes just about anything look more festive. Also, I haven't had much opportunity to buy tulle in my general day-to-day dealings with the fabric store, so that was fun. We picked up 50 yards of the stuff in three different colors (the wedding colors - light blue, dark blue, and white, of course), which hopefully will be plenty for our needs.